Update on funding programmes and otherengagement opportunities
Maheva Bagard Laursen & Mélianie Raymond
GBIF Secretariat

Virtual engagement & Support to project writing
GBIF funding programmesAvailable on Vimeo:

VIDEO SERIESSUPPORTING
PROJECT
PREPARATION

https://bit.ly/GBIFGrantsAndFundingVideos
And for download:
https://bit.ly/GBIFGrantsAndFundingDownloads

Live Questions & Answers session

Support to project writing• Opportunity to ask specificquestions• Summary of the Q&A live session isshared with all applicants after thesession•Support to fundedprojects•Specific guidance videos developed to support andsmoothen project reporting•

Virtual get-together to share experiences, answer
questions and help keeping communities of practiceactiveBIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
Programme funded by the European UnionGRANT TYPES

Institutional level

Regional grants••

Single institutions•

Up to €20,000 per
project

Up to € 60,000 for
projects involving
two countries;€120,000 for
projects involving
three or morecountries

National grants••

Lead institution + 2
relevant nationalpartners
Up to €40,000 per
project

Photos: Marta Południk, P. Faucher, damienbr, Brandon Shaw via iNaturalist.

Data use grants•Up to €60,000 perproject

BID CALL FOR PROPOSALS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA – FULL PROPOSAL PHASE

34 concept notes invited to submit a Full proposal
DEADLINE – 17 December 2020

Photos: Linda's flatworm (Pseudoceros lindae) Zanzibar, Tanzania. Photo 2011 by Rino Iubatti via iNaturalist Researchgrade Observations, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

CONCEPT NOTE PHASE

BID PACIFIC
BID CARIBBEAN•

BID Caribbean: 61 concept notes received from 15countries/territories•BID Pacific: 10 concept notes received from 4
countries/territories•

PROPOSALS UNDER REVIEWBIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FUND FOR ASIA
Programme funded by Ministry of Environment, Government of Japan

New call for proposals

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Open mid-December 2020
Over €200,000 assigned to this callMaximum funding per project:€20,000
18 months projects - from September 2021
2 grant types:
Ø BIFA collections data mobilization grants
Ø BIFA ecological monitoring data mobilization grants

Priority data streams•

Data relating to the hosts, reservoirs orvectors of zoonotic diseases•Data derived from DNA, for example
metagenomics sampling or barcoding
projects•

Data mobilized by the private sector throughenvironmental impact assessments or othermonitoring activities

CESP
BIFA

08 December 2020

Q3 - 2021

August 2021

Q3 2021

July 2022

Two stage
selection process:Notification sent toprojects selected to
be fundedStart of the projects

Virtual get together

End of the projects

Ø Concept note

Ø Final reportØ Full proposal

Call for proposals

Contact procedure

December 2020

Q3- 2021

September 2021

Two stage
selection process:Notification sent toprojects selected tobe fundedStart of the projects

Ø Concept note

Project implementation (12 months)

BID

Contract procedure

10 June 2020

07 September 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa

Pacific & Caribbean

Two stage selection
process:

Two stage selection
process:Ø Concept noteØ Concept note

Ø Full proposalØ Full proposal

Call for proposals

February 2023
End of the projects
Ø Final report

Q4 2021
Virtual get together

Ø Full proposal

Call for proposals

November 2021
(virtual) Datamobilization
workshop

Project implementation (18 months)
March 2021
Selected projects
from Africa
June 2021
Selected projects
from the Caribbeanand PacificContract procedure
GBIF Led-Programmes

April 2021 – March2023
Projects from Africa

Second quarter 2021

July 2021 – June2023:
Projects from theCaribbean & PacificThird quarter 2021

BID workshop in
AfricaBID workshop in
Caribbean & PacificProject implementation (24 months)

Thank you